Donald Trump on Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis:
“If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel so sorry, because he’s vicious…I really don’t feel sorry for him.”
(May 2025)
It shouldn’t but it still amazes me that the president of the United States doesn’t understand how trade works. He thinks that if he banned imports from Switzerland, our country would somehow gain $40 billion.
This is idiocy. But the people who elected him are idiots, so …
This 30-second clip is taken out of context. El-Sayed was talking about the Mackinac Policy Conference, an annual gathering of policy pros and insiders that he argues brings together well-connected and powerful people and shuts most voters out of politics.
Q: When is it going to be safe to eat lettuce again?
Trump: I don't know. I haven't thought about it. There's this, there's this food coming in, I guess. From Mexico. I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna put a major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce, and we're gonna put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke.
The U.S. has finalized a major rollback of the Endangered Species Act.
One of America’s most successful conservation laws, credited with helping recover the bald eagle, gray wolf, and many other species, is being significantly weakened.
The new rule removes habitat destruction from the legal definition of “harm” to an endangered species. This could make it easier for logging, mining, and development to damage the habitats that threatened and endangered wildlife depend on.
Weakening these safeguards affects not only wildlife. It threatens ecosystems that provide clean water, carbon storage, flood protection, and biodiversity.
The ESA has been a cornerstone of U.S. conservation for more than 50 years. Rolling back habitat protections risks reversing decades of progress while nature is already under immense pressure.
You cannot protect endangered species if the habitats they depend on are no longer protected.
[Source: NPR; Earthjustice (July 2026).]